Quote: The Giggle-o @ July 29 2009, 8:50 PM BSTWhy have people seemed to have rounded on bushbaby for posting this? It's a joke. You seem to have quickly jumped to the conclusion that the joke is in some way representative of their own beliefs without giving them a chance. I don't think you're a paedo when you make paedo jokes sootyj.
There is something to this. There are incredible double standards in comedy. It's still seriously uncool to tell a joke about a pakistani / black man or whatever. Ask any right-on comedian why, and he'll tell you it's because you're poking fun at people that have been persecuted / tortured / murdered etc and it's not fair. And then that same comedian will get up and tell a Maddie gag, which is apparently okay.
I'm not saying I approve of racist jokes - I don't - but the double standards annoys me.